Federal Act
on the Intelligence Service
(Intelligence Service Act, IntelSA)

¹ The in­de­pend­ent su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity shall over­see the in­tel­li­gence ser­vice activ­it­ies car­ried out by the FIS, can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies and third parties and oth­er agen­cies del­eg­ated these tasks by FIS. It shall audit these activ­it­ies to con­firm their leg­al­ity, ex­pedi­ency and ef­fect­ive­ness.

² It shall co­ordin­ate its activ­it­ies with par­lia­ment­ary su­per­vi­sion activ­it­ies and with oth­er fed­er­al and can­ton­al su­per­vi­sion bod­ies.

³ It shall in­form the DDPS about its activ­it­ies in an an­nu­al re­port; this re­port shall be pub­lished.

⁴ It has ac­cess to all rel­ev­ant in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments and ac­cess to all the premises of the sub­jects of su­per­vi­sion. It may re­quest cop­ies of doc­u­ments. With­in the scope of its su­per­vi­sion activ­it­ies, it may re­quest in­form­a­tion from and may in­spect files held by oth­er fed­er­al and can­ton­al agen­cies, provided this in­form­a­tion is re­lated to the co­oper­a­tion between these agen­cies and the sub­jects of su­per­vi­sion.

⁵ In or­der to carry out its su­per­vi­sion activ­it­ies, it may have ac­cess to all the in­form­a­tion sys­tems and data­bases of the sub­jects of su­per­vi­sion; it may also have ac­cess to sens­it­ive per­son­al data. It may only store the data thereby ob­tained un­til the audit is com­pleted. The con­trol­lers con­cerned must keep a re­cord of ac­cess to the vari­ous in­form­a­tion sys­tems and data­bases.⁵³

⁶ The in­de­pend­ent su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity shall provide the DDPS with a writ­ten re­port on the res­ults of its audit. It may is­sue re­com­mend­a­tions.

⁷ The DDPS shall en­sure that the re­com­mend­a­tions are im­ple­men­ted. If the DDPS re­jects a re­com­mend­a­tion, it shall sub­mit the same to the Fed­er­al Coun­cil for a de­cision.